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It's hard to shock me after 30 years of crime reporting, but some stories get under my skin.

They're senseless crimes with horrific violence,

and most of the time, it's over very little,

a pittance of a payoff.

Just the sheer brutality of it.

There really was no reason to strike a person in the back of the head.

Simply brandishing it and demanding money would have been sufficient.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News.

This season on Crime Beat, I'll take you inside shocking cases

that show how careless people can be with human life.

And what happens when greed and selfishness take over? that show how careless people can be with human life.

And what happens when greed and selfishness take over?

In my eye, you'll be the coldest bloodiest son of a bitch I've ever met.

I'll introduce you to people just going about their everyday lives when in an instant everything changed.

Like the beloved 75-year-old man who was washing up getting ready

for bed when he was brutally beaten and killed. Despite an exhaustive investigation, the killer

avoided arrest and struck again. There's a lot of restless nights. Or the young man on his way home from evening classes, who stopped by an ATM to grab some cash.

But by the time he finished entering his pin, his entire world went dark.

Our number one priority is to get that offender in custody.

That offender has killed an innocent individual already

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